As Atlantic Books Today reviewer Jenn Thornhill Verma explains, “Residential schools in Newfoundland and Labrador separated Inuit and Innu children from their families, communities and culture, with devastating consequences. While A Long Journey is authored by an anthropologist, it’s the voices of residential school survivors that make this book stand apart. Most of what was previously reported about these boarding schools came from the authorities who ran them: the Moravian Mission and the International Grenfell Association in Labrador (North West River, Cartwright, Makkovik, Nain) and Newfoundland (St. Anthony). But now, invited by the Newfoundland and Labrador Healing and Commemoration project (created by government and communities to support healing and reconciliation) to record survivor stories, Procter delivers the most thorough examination of its kind.”